How often does the New Answers page update?

in early days it used to "down"date for me: i wd reload it and it wd go back to an earlier state

― mark s, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

The new answers and the new questions pages are both a mystery to me. Threads suddenly appear with 20+ posts which all occurred on that day! It is really weird. Also, stuff often turns up on the new answers page with multiple answers before the new questions page.

― toraneko, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

What Mark is talking about used to happen to me a lot to -- I think greenspun has become a lot more stable as time has gone on. It does seem to depend how often it updates, though.

― Nicole, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

the database query for the New Answers page appears to be cached - presumably because of everyone refreshing it all the time! it normally updates within about 2 minutes though.

Mr Moderator - do you think it would be a good idea to reduce the number of days an answer is counted as 'new' (the default is 7 days, which i think it's on at the moment). since most people check here daily, maybe setting it to 1 or 2 days would be better.

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thats up to DG I think. My assumption is that some people will go 3 or 4 days sometimes without looking at ILE and so that should be accomodated.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's currently set to three days, if I remember correctly.

― DG, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink